Several hundred people packed a school auditorium in San Francisco's Mission District on Wednesday evening to decry the city's treatment of immigrants, making their case in front of a panel of city officials that included representatives from the Police Department, mayor's office, school board and Board of Supervisors.

The mostly Latino crowd spoke out against the city's new policy of automatically reporting undocumented juveniles arrested for a felony to federal immigration authorities. The boisterous attendees - who punctuated many remarks with shouts of "¡Si se puede!" or "Yes we can!" - also denounced alleged racial profiling by San Francisco police and immigration raids in general.

Guadalupe Carreno, a 15-year-old sophomore at June Jordan School for Equity, said her family has been in limbo since January when her father was deported after a raid at their Bayview district home. Now, Guadalupe and her two brothers - ages 14 and 20 months - are waiting to see whether their mother also will be forced to leave. The children are all U.S. citizens who have only visited Mexico once or twice, but their parents came to the country illegally 20 years ago.

Guadalupe, an A student who has epilepsy, said she is worried about both her education and her health if the family is forced to move back to Mexico.

"The only thing going through my mind is school," she said. "I want to go into child psychology ... but if we have to move, I feel like my education will be thrown out the window."

Her principal, Matt Alexander, also spoke to the crowd in support of Guadalupe's family, saying she and her brother are model students. Alexander noted it is his job to teach about the country's history and values, including the inalienable rights spelled out in the Declaration of Independence: "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

"For Guadalupe, life means having access to health care in San Francisco, freedom means the freedom to live in her city of birth, and happiness means that she can work hard and go to college and give back to her community," he said.

The meeting, organized by the S.F. Immigrants Rights Defense Committee - a coalition of more than 30 immigrants rights organizations, labor groups, faith organizations and other activists - came two weeks after Supervisor David Campos held a similar hearing at City Hall that focused on racial profiling. Campos and three other freshman supervisors - President David Chiu, John Avalos and Eric Mar - were in attendance. All four come from immigrant families.

The supervisors, as well as Phil Ting, the city's assessor-recorder, denounced immigration raids and pledged to work on local and national reform to immigration polices. Chiu called the raids "illegal and unconstitutional."

"I don't want my tax dollars going to raids, stopping people from working, stopping families from being together," Ting said. "We must work together to make sure our president and Congress get the support they need for real reform, because until we have a path to citizenship, our community can never be whole."